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geGUI

geGUI is a generic graphical user interface for command-line applications. The program is implemented in C++ using the Qt library.

To generate a GUI for a tool, a command line interface definition in TDX format (see below) has to be provided. From this definition, a GUI is generated that can be used to execute the tool.

This screenshot shows an example of a tool for XML validation:

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Features:

  • Free to use for everyone.
  • Portable Windows executable (does not require an installation).
  • Handling of input file, input file list, output file, string, integer, float, enum and flag parameters.
  • Handling of optional parameters and default values.

Building

Just clone the repository and open the src/geGUI.pro file in QtCreator.
After a successful build, the executable and libraries are in the bin folder.

#Tool Definition XML (TDX) TDX stands for the "Tool Definition XML" format. A TDX file describes the command line interface of a tool. It captures the tool documentation, various parameters, parameter documentation.
The XML schema of the TDX format can be found here.

By convention, the TDX file corresponding to an executable/script has the same file name with the appended extension '.tdx'.

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